All Blog Posts Tagged 'Chepesiuk' (45)

By David Amoruso

Drug boss Frank Matthews came up like a rocket. His organization made hundreds of millions from drug trafficking, billions in today’s currency. When authorities closed in, he jumped bail in 1973 and vanished with his girlfriend and $20 million. He remains a wanted man. “He disappeared off…

By Ron Chepesiuk

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for February 14, 2019, through May 16, 2019. Topics covered include Pablo Escobar, Tony Accardo, the Fixer, a murderous daughter, Internet Crime, a World War…

By Ron Chepesiuk

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for December 6, 2018,through February 7, 2019. Topics covered include Hitmen, The Golden Triangle, The Mafia in Boston, Robbing Banks, Rock Music and the Mob, Killer…

By Ron Chepesiuk

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for October 4, 2018, through November 29, 2018. Topics covered include…

By Ron Chepesiuk

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for July 5, 2018, through September 27, 2018. Topics covered include Frank Costello, Ernest Hemingway and Espionage, Dirty Tricksters, 1968 and Radical…

By Ron Chepesiuk

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for April 12, 2018, through June 28, 2018. Topics covered include Neo…

By Ron Chepesiuk

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE on

Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for January 11, 2018, through April 5, 2018. Topics covered include music and the mob, true crime writing, working undercover, Gays in Mecca, serial…

By Ron Chepesiuk

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for November 2, 2017, through January 4, 2018. Topics covered include John Gotti (the film), American Gangster (the movie), O.J. Simpson, Buchenwald, Asian gangs, Mob…

By Ron Chepesiuk

On September 26, 2006, American justice was finally served in a Miami court when two gangsters, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, and his brother Miguel, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering charges. The plea, which came after months of intense negotiations with several U.S. agencies, marked the end of the…

By Ron Chepesiuk

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for April 13, 2016, through June 15, 2017. Topics covered include serial killers, Al Capone, Rasputin, Jack the Ripper, Bob Crane, the Las Vegas crime scene, and more.

• April 13…

By Ron Chepesiuk

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARKSIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for January 19, 2017, through April 6, 2017. Guests include Rebecca Morris, Barbara Casey, Matthew Rider, Margo Nash, Louis Divita, among others.

Here is the…

CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARKSIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for September 8, 2016, through November 10, 2016. Guests include David Kay Johnston, Nick Foster, Rebecca Morris, Denise Morris, John Glatt, Sean McFate, and others.

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CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for June 23, 2016, through September 1, 2016. Topics covered include the Klan, Ted Bundy, Jane Doe, Lucky Luciano, Amish Country, an Alaska Serial Killer, the Michael Skakel Murder Case, and more. Authors featured include…

Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for October 1, 2015, through November 26, 2015. Topics covered include rapper Tupac "2Pac" Shakur, Whitey Bulger, the Billion Dollar Spy, La Cosa Nostra, marijuana legalization, and more.

Here is the lineup:

• October 1 - John Alite, the subject of Gotti’s Rules:…

Crime Beat: Issues, Controversies and Personalities from the darkside on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for June 26, 2014, through August 21, 2014. Topics covered include Mafia History, the Pizza Bomber, Joseph Mengele, private investigation work and more.

Here is the lineup:

• June 26—Mel…

Crime Beat: Issues, Controversies and Personalities from the darkside on Artist First Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for April 17, 2014, through June 19, 2014. Topics covered include Mafia History, the Pizza Bomber, Joseph Mengele, private investigation work and more.

Here is…

Crime Beat: Issues, Controversies and Personalities from the dark side on Artist First World Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for February 13, 2014, through April 17, 2014. Topics covered include women in Hitler's regime, an undercover cop in the Hells Angels, drug kingpin Frank Matthews, the Ma Barker gang, Bin Laden's final plot…

The following is an exclusive excerpt from Ron Chepesiuk’s new book Escobar versus Cali: The War of the Cartels. We hope you enjoy it!

By Ron Chepesiuk

The Rumble Begins

The Cali Cartel brought in Jorge Salcedo to oversee its security work.…

Crime Beat: Issues, Controversies and Personalities from the darkside on Artist First World Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for September 19, 2013, through November 14, 2013. Topics covered include Adolph Hitler, Western Outlaws, JFK Assassination, Prohibition gangsters, the Buffalo Mob, among others.

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Crime Beat: Issues, Controversies and Personalities from the darkside on Artist First World Radio Network is pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule for July 18, 2013, through September 5, 2013. Topics covered include the Iraq War, a hitman, the Tyson-Holyfield, and surveillance in America, among others.

In addition, each week, Crime Beat will…